Thursday Feb 10, 1921 Rockford Republic
Funeral of Dr. Allaben Held Sunday
Dr. John E. Allaben, of 974 N. Court st. died at his home Wednesday following several years of failing health. He was born Nov. 16, 1858 at Dixon, Ill., the youngest of eleven children of whom only a sister, Mrs. Millberger of North Carolina is living. His father died when he was five years old and he was brought up on a farm near Polo by by a Mr. Coffman.
Dr. Allaben received his degree of M.D. at the University of Michigan in 1883 and came to Rockford to practice, staying here four years. He then practiced in the Scotch settlement with offices at Argyle. In 1893 he returned to Rockford and since that time has been prominent in the medical fraternity of this city.
Doctor Allaben was the first surgeon in northern Illinois to perform a surgical operation for appendicitis. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and was an active member of state, district and national medical associations, before which he was frequently asked to read papers.
He married Miss Hattie Strickland of St. John's Mich., in 1887, who survives him. To this union were born four sons. Ernest, who dide in 1905; Gerald, who is now practicing medicine in Buhl, Minn.; Everett, who is spending the winter with his family in Florida; and Roland Allaben in the sophomore class of Michigan university.
In 1913, Dr. Allaben was named as a delegate to the International Association of Medicine and Surgery convention and went to England for one of the most important sessions of that body.
From 1910 until June 1919, when he gave up his private practice because of ill health, he was a close student of operative surgery and his interpretations of modern surgery brought him prominence in various medical journals of the United States.
Funeral of Dr. Allaben Held Sunday
Dr. John E. Allaben, of 974 N. Court st. died at his home Wednesday following several years of failing health. He was born Nov. 16, 1858 at Dixon, Ill., the youngest of eleven children of whom only a sister, Mrs. Millberger of North Carolina is living. His father died when he was five years old and he was brought up on a farm near Polo by by a Mr. Coffman.
Dr. Allaben received his degree of M.D. at the University of Michigan in 1883 and came to Rockford to practice, staying here four years. He then practiced in the Scotch settlement with offices at Argyle. In 1893 he returned to Rockford and since that time has been prominent in the medical fraternity of this city.
Doctor Allaben was the first surgeon in northern Illinois to perform a surgical operation for appendicitis. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and was an active member of state, district and national medical associations, before which he was frequently asked to read papers.
He married Miss Hattie Strickland of St. John's Mich., in 1887, who survives him. To this union were born four sons. Ernest, who dide in 1905; Gerald, who is now practicing medicine in Buhl, Minn.; Everett, who is spending the winter with his family in Florida; and Roland Allaben in the sophomore class of Michigan university.
In 1913, Dr. Allaben was named as a delegate to the International Association of Medicine and Surgery convention and went to England for one of the most important sessions of that body.
From 1910 until June 1919, when he gave up his private practice because of ill health, he was a close student of operative surgery and his interpretations of modern surgery brought him prominence in various medical journals of the United States.
Thursday Feb 10, 1921 Rockford Republic
Funeral of Dr. Allaben Held Sunday
Dr. John E. Allaben, of 974 N. Court st. died at his home Wednesday following several years of failing health. He was born Nov. 16, 1858 at Dixon, Ill., the youngest of eleven children of whom only a sister, Mrs. Millberger of North Carolina is living. His father died when he was five years old and he was brought up on a farm near Polo by by a Mr. Coffman.
Dr. Allaben received his degree of M.D. at the University of Michigan in 1883 and came to Rockford to practice, staying here four years. He then practiced in the Scotch settlement with offices at Argyle. In 1893 he returned to Rockford and since that time has been prominent in the medical fraternity of this city.
Doctor Allaben was the first surgeon in northern Illinois to perform a surgical operation for appendicitis. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and was an active member of state, district and national medical associations, before which he was frequently asked to read papers.
He married Miss Hattie Strickland of St. John's Mich., in 1887, who survives him. To this union were born four sons. Ernest, who dide in 1905; Gerald, who is now practicing medicine in Buhl, Minn.; Everett, who is spending the winter with his family in Florida; and Roland Allaben in the sophomore class of Michigan university.
In 1913, Dr. Allaben was named as a delegate to the International Association of Medicine and Surgery convention and went to England for one of the most important sessions of that body.
From 1910 until June 1919, when he gave up his private practice because of ill health, he was a close student of operative surgery and his interpretations of modern surgery brought him prominence in various medical journals of the United States.
Funeral of Dr. Allaben Held Sunday
Dr. John E. Allaben, of 974 N. Court st. died at his home Wednesday following several years of failing health. He was born Nov. 16, 1858 at Dixon, Ill., the youngest of eleven children of whom only a sister, Mrs. Millberger of North Carolina is living. His father died when he was five years old and he was brought up on a farm near Polo by by a Mr. Coffman.
Dr. Allaben received his degree of M.D. at the University of Michigan in 1883 and came to Rockford to practice, staying here four years. He then practiced in the Scotch settlement with offices at Argyle. In 1893 he returned to Rockford and since that time has been prominent in the medical fraternity of this city.
Doctor Allaben was the first surgeon in northern Illinois to perform a surgical operation for appendicitis. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and was an active member of state, district and national medical associations, before which he was frequently asked to read papers.
He married Miss Hattie Strickland of St. John's Mich., in 1887, who survives him. To this union were born four sons. Ernest, who dide in 1905; Gerald, who is now practicing medicine in Buhl, Minn.; Everett, who is spending the winter with his family in Florida; and Roland Allaben in the sophomore class of Michigan university.
In 1913, Dr. Allaben was named as a delegate to the International Association of Medicine and Surgery convention and went to England for one of the most important sessions of that body.
From 1910 until June 1919, when he gave up his private practice because of ill health, he was a close student of operative surgery and his interpretations of modern surgery brought him prominence in various medical journals of the United States.
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